“STREET FIGHT”, The Book.
Source: Janette Sadik-Khan's blog
http://www.jsadikkhan.com/streetfight-the-book.html
Access RAS in 27mar2017
An empowering road map for rethinking, reinvigorating, and redesigning
our cities, from a pioneer in the movement for safer, more livable streets.
“Janette Sadik-Khan is like
the child that Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs never had: an urban visionary
determined to reshape the streets of New York, but with an abiding concern for
the health of neighborhoods and the safety of their residents. If you care
about the future of cities, read Streetfight.”
—Michael Bloomberg, former New York City Mayor
“This book is an urban epic
as audacious as the changes Janette Sadik-Khan made to the map of New York
City. She is a superhero for cities and an inspiration that streets built to
human scale aren’t impossible, but merely awaiting those who dare.”
—Jan Gehl, Urbanist, architect, author
ABOUT THE BOOK
As New York City's transportation
commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan managed the seemingly impossible and
transformed the streets of one of the world's greatest, toughest cities into
dynamic spaces safe for pedestrians and bikers. Her approach was dramatic and
effective: Simply painting a part of the street to make it into a plaza or bus
lane not only made the street safer, but it also lessened congestion and
increased foot traffic, which improved the bottom line of businesses. Real-life
experience confirmed that if you know how to read the street, you can make it
function better by not totally reconstructing it but by reallocating the space
that's already there.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
JANETTE
SADIK-KHAN
One of the leading voices on
urban transportation policy, Janette Sadik-Khan is internationally respected
for her transformative redesigns of New York City streets and
rapid-implementation strategies that are being replicated today in cities
around the world.
SETH
SOLOMONOW
Co-author SETH SOLOMONOW was the chief media strategist for Janette Sadik-Khan and the New York
City Transportation Department under Mayor
Bloomberg. A graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism,
Solomonow has written for the New York Times and his hometown newspaper, The
Staten Island Advance. He is a manager at Bloomberg Associates and lives in
Brooklyn, New York. Follow him on Twitter at @SethSolomonow.
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JANETTE SADIK-KHAN BIO [27mar2017]
- One of the leading voices on urban transportation
policy, Janette Sadik-Khan is internationally respected for her
transformative redesigns of New York City streets and rapid-implementation
strategies that are being replicated today in cities around the world.
- She was Commissioner of the New York City
Department of Transportation from 2007–2013 under Mayor Michael Bloomberg,
leading one of the most sweeping revitalizations of the city’s streets in
a half-century.
- During her tenure, New York
City added nearly 400 miles of bike lanes and the first parking-protected
bike paths in North America. The department she led set in motion
more than 60 plazas across the city, including the historic plazas that
shut Broadway through Times Square, sparking economic recovery throughout
the area. She worked with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority
to launch the city’s first six rapid bus lines and oversaw hundreds of
intersection and street redesigns that contributed to the city’s
record-low traffic fatalities. Sadik-Khan oversaw the 2013 launch of
Citi Bike, the nation’s largest bike share system, which to date has been
used more than 22 million times and is doubling in size to 12,000 bikes.
- She currently advises mayors
of cities around the world as a principal at Bloomberg Associates, a
philanthropic consultancy established by Michael Bloomberg to help cities
around the world improve the quality of life of their citizens. She
assists mayors and their teams in developing street redesigns in cities
from Los Angeles to Mexico City to Rio and Athens.
- As chair of the National
Association of Transportation Officials (NACTO), an organization of
transportation commissioners and directors in 38 cities, she led the
development and publication of NACTO’s Global and Urban Street Design
Guides and the Urban Bikeway Design Guide. The new standards in these
documents have been recognized by USDOT and adopted by 40 cities
worldwide.
- Sadik-Khan was a Senior Vice
President of Parsons Brinckerhoff, a leading international engineering
firm. Previously, she worked in Washington, D.C., as a Deputy
Administrator at the US Department of Transportation. She holds a B.A. in
Political Science from Occidental College, and a J.D. from Columbia
University School of Law.
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